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<p><i>List of Contributors, ix</i></p> <p><i>Preface, xiii</i></p> <p><b>Part 1: Types of Urinary Stones and Their Medical Management</b></p> <p>1 How to Build a Kidney Stone Prevention Clinic, 3<br /> <i>David S. Goldfarb</i></p> <p>2 Metabolic Evaluation: Interpretation of 24-Hour Urine Chemistries, 13<br /> <i>John R. Asplin</i></p> <p>3 Uric Acid Stones, 26<br /> <i>Naim M. Maalouf</i></p> <p>4 Calcium Stones, 36<br /> <i>John C. Lieske</i></p> <p>5 Struvite Stones, 48<br /> <i>Brian H. Eisner, Sameer M. Deshmukh, and Dirk Lange</i></p> <p>6 Genetic Causes of Kidney Stones: Cystinuria, Primary Hyperoxaluria, Dent’s Disease, and APRT Deficiency, 57<br /> <i>Runolfur Palsson</i></p> <p>7 Evaluation and Management of Pediatric Stones, 70<br /> <i>Vidar O. Edvardsson and Sherry S. Ross</i></p> <p>8 Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Stones, 81<br /> <i>Marcella Donovan Walker and Shonni J. Silverberg</i></p> <p>9 Renal Tubular Acidosis, Stones, and Nephrocalcinosis, 93<br /> <i>Robert J. Unwin, Stephen B. Walsh, and Oliver M. Wrong</i></p> <p>10 Drug-Induced Stones, 106<br /> <i>Michel Daudon and Paul Jungers</i></p> <p>11 Management of Renal Colic and Medical Expulsive Therapy, 120<br /> <i>Michael S. Borofsky and Ojas Shah</i></p> <p><b>Part 2: Surgical Management of Urinary Stones</b></p> <p>12 Indications for Conservative and Surgical Management of Urinary Stone Disease, 135<br /> <i>Brian D. Duty and Michael J. Conlin</i></p> <p>13 Perioperative Imaging: Plain Film, Sonography, Contrast-Based Fluoroscopic Imaging, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Urography, 148<br /> <i>Nicole Hindman</i></p> <p>14 Emergency Urinary Drainage Techniques Employed for an Obstructing Upper Urinary Tract Calculus With and Without Associated Sepsis, 157<br /> <i>Sunil Mathur and Francis X. Keeley Jr</i></p> <p>15 Endoscopic Management of Lower Urinary Tract Calculi: Tips and Tricks, 166<br /> <i>Christopher M. Dixon and Sean Fullerton</i></p> <p>16 Ureteroscopy, 176<br /> <i>Israel Franco and Lesli Nicolay</i></p> <p>17 Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy in Children: Renal Stones, 195<br /> <i>Jordan Gitlin and Kai-wen Chuan</i></p> <p>18 Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy: Generators and Treatment Techniques, 216<br /> <i>Jessica E. Paonessa and James E. Lingeman</i></p> <p>19 Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy: Indications, Access Endoscopes, Accessories, and Lithotrites, 227<br /> <i>Julien Letendre and Olivier Traxer</i></p> <p>20 Ureteropyeloscopic Management of Upper Urinary Tract Calculi, 243<br /> <i>Michael Grasso, Andrew I. Fishman, and Bobby Alexander</i></p> <p>21 Percutaneous Nephrolithomy: Access and Instrumentation, 264<br /> <i>Arvind P. Ganpule, Sachin Abrol, Abhishek Laddha, and Mahesh R. Desai</i></p> <p>22 Percutaneous Management of Intrarenal Calculi, 278<br /> <i>Michael Degen and Majid Eshghi</i></p> <p>23 Laparoscopic and Open Surgical Management of Urinary Calculi, 296<br /> <i>Ahmed Alasker, Reza Ghavamian, and David Hoenig</i></p> <p>24 Multimodality Therapy: Mixing and Matching of Surgical Techniques for the Treatment of Stone Disease, 311<br /> <i>Nir Kleinmann, Kelly A. Healy, and Demetrius H. Bagley</i></p> <p>25 Management of Complications Associated with Various Lithotripsy Techniques, 326<br /> <i>Angela M. Cottrell and Andrew J. Dickinson</i></p> <p><i>Index, 340</i></p>

<p>Edited by:</p> <p><b>Michael Grasso MD</b>, Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Urology, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA</p> <p><b>David S. Goldfarb MD, FASN</b>, Clinical Chief, Nephrology Division, NYU Langone Medical Center; Professor of Medicine and Physiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA</p>

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